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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Exciting news and congrats to all who have worked on the project so far! I’m excited to see the project flourish!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Rangelands <rangelands-bounces@list.cals.arizona.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>G. Allen Rasmussen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 3, 2018 7:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> rangelands@list.cals.arizona.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [RangelandsPartnership] NRCS CIG Award Announcement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Wonderful. Congratulations Dr. Karl and everyone on contributing to the success!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 12:34 AM, Kenyon, Jeremy (<a href="mailto:jkenyon@uidaho.edu">jkenyon@uidaho.edu</a>) <<a href="mailto:jkenyon@uidaho.edu" target="_blank">jkenyon@uidaho.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">During this year’s annual meeting, you heard from Dr. Jason Karl (Idaho) about a proposal to the USDA NRCS’s Conservation Innovation Grant program entitled: “A National Grazingland
Information System: Expanding GlobalRangelands.org Through a Grazingland Thesaurus and Mobile Content Access”.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We’re happy to say that the project was funded just last week!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">A number of you were involved in the discussions and planning – so thank you to all involved for your efforts!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">This project will provide some funding for the RP, and allow us to pursue innovative new enhancements – a national grazinglands vocabulary/ontology, a grazing-centric document collection,
and mobile-oriented access to these resources – to our collective work at GlobalRangelands.org. The core project teams are at Idaho and Arizona, but we’ll be engaging a number of RP members for help and expertise as the project progresses. I’ve attached
the project “factsheet” and proposal narrative to provide more details about it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Please let me, Jason (<a href="mailto:jkarl@uidaho.edu" target="_blank">jkarl@uidaho.edu</a>), Jeanne Pfander (<a href="mailto:jpfander@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">jpfander@email.arizona.edu</a>),
or George Ruyle (<a href="mailto:gruyle@cals.arizona.edu" target="_blank">gruyle@cals.arizona.edu</a>) know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Jeremy Kenyon<br>
Research Librarian, University of Idaho Library</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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